There is a moment, usually somewhere between day 14 and day 30, when a new CEO realises that the organisation they accepted the offer to lead is not quite the organisation they were told about during the interview process. The strategy looks slightly different from the inside. The culture is more entrenched than the board […]
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It usually starts the same way. A polite, professional resignation letter lands on the chairperson’s desk. The reasons are familiar: a global role, a stronger currency, a different pace of life for the family. Within weeks, the CFO who has steered the business through three difficult years, or the COO who quietly holds the operation […]
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There is a number that almost no board or executive committee has ever calculated. It is not a number that appears in your management accounts, your balance sheet, or your quarterly report. But it is real, it is material, and in most organisations it runs into the millions. It is the daily cost of an […]
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